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Re-Creating Primordial Time

Author : Gabrielle Vail
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
ISBN 13 : 1607322218
Total Pages : 503 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book Re-Creating Primordial Time written by Gabrielle Vail and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2013-10-15 with total page 503 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Re-Creating Primordial Time offers a new perspective on the Maya codices, documenting the extensive use of creation mythology and foundational rituals in the hieroglyphic texts and iconography of these important manuscripts. Focusing on both pre-Columbian codices and early colonial creation accounts, Vail and Hernández show that in spite of significant cultural change during the Postclassic and Colonial periods, the mythological traditions reveal significant continuity, beginning as far back as the Classic period. Remarkable similarities exist within the Maya tradition, even as new mythologies were introduced through contact with the Gulf Coast region and highland central Mexico. Vail and Hernández analyze the extant Maya codices within the context of later literary sources such as the Books of Chilam Balam, the Popol Vuh, and the Códice Chimalpopoca to present numerous examples highlighting the relationship among creation mythology, rituals, and lore. Compiling and comparing Maya creation mythology with that of the Borgia codices from highland central Mexico, Re-Creating Primordial Time is a significant contribution to the field of Mesoamerican studies and will be of interest to scholars of archaeology, linguistics, epigraphy, and comparative religions alike.

Recreating the World/Word

Author : Lynda D. McNeil
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438412630
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Recreating the World/Word written by Lynda D. McNeil and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1992-07-01 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book combines interdisciplinary and comparatist approaches (anthropology, philosophy, psychology, and language) in the investigation of the mythic mode of thought and language in the post-Symbolist poets Arthur Rimbaud, Georg Trakl, Hart Crane, and Charles Olson. Part One covers the philosophical tradition from Gottfried Herder to Ernst Cassirer. Part Two includes close analytical readings of individual poems by these authors as they enact the mythic mode. The conclusion relates the mythic mode to feminist studies of thought and language.

Re-Creating Anthropology

Author : David N. Gellner
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000568970
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Re-Creating Anthropology written by David N. Gellner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-04-26 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book makes a notable contribution to discussions of what anthropology is and should be in the twenty-first century through a reconsideration, from diverse sub-disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives, of the interactions between sociality, matter, and the imagination. It explores the imagination in its social contexts, how it is put to work, and how, in its embodied and material forms, it works in practice. The chapters provide detailed case studies, including film-making in Egypt; spirit-possession/exorcism in Italy; Theosophy and the production of knowledge about UFOs; the role of mistakes or glitches in public performances; humans’ varying relationships to the environment; post-coloniality, time, and crisis in anthropology; and artistic creativity.

The Elemental Dialectic of Light and Darkness

Author : Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9780792316015
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book The Elemental Dialectic of Light and Darkness written by Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1992-07-31 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dialectic of light and darkness studied in this collection of essays reveals itself as a primal factor of life as well as the essential element of the specifically human world. From its borderline position between physis and psyche, natural growth and techne, bios and ethos, it functions as the essential factor in all the sectors of life at large. We see its crucial role in all sectors of life while, prompted by man's creative imagination, it enhances and spurs his vital as well as societal and spiritual life. This rare collection contains studies by Thomas Ryba, Krystina Górniak-Kocikowska, Lois Oppenheim, Sydney Feshback, Eldon van Lieve, Sitansu Ray, Theodore Litman, Peter Morgan, Colette Michael, Christopher Lalonde, L. Findlay, Christopher Eykman, Beverly Schlack Randles, Jorge García-Gómez, William Haney, Sherilyn Abdoo, David Brottman, Alan Pratt, Hans Rudnick, George Scheper, Freema Gottlieb, Marlies Kronegger.

The Social and Cultural Order of Ancient Egypt

Author : Steen Bergendorff
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1793610053
Total Pages : 163 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (936 download)

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Download or read book The Social and Cultural Order of Ancient Egypt written by Steen Bergendorff and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-12-04 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Narmer palette to funerary preparations to pyramids, Steen Bergendorff draws on anthropological insights to provide new interpretations of accepted truths about Ancient Egypt. Bergendorff traces societal reproductive patterns in Ancient Egypt and the regional trade network that stretched from the Levant and Mesopotamia in the west and Nubia and Africa to the south in order to illustrate Ancient Egyptian culture anew. This book is recommended for students and scholars of archaeology, anthropology, Egyptology, and history.

Despair and the Return of Hope

Author : Peter C. Shabad
Publisher : Jason Aronson
ISBN 13 : 9780765705815
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (58 download)

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Download or read book Despair and the Return of Hope written by Peter C. Shabad and published by Jason Aronson. This book was released on 2007-09 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When unmourned experiences of helplessness and disavowed desires turn into a passive fatalism, people stop hoping for the best and fear the worst, despairing that the real world has anything good to offer. This can lead individuals to memorialize past sufferings through psychological symptoms and compulsive repetitions. Dr. Shabad discusses how patients, after many years of living a life limited by resentment, fear, and despair, can come to terms with their childhood experiences: a mother who can never be satisfied, a father who consistently buries his head in the newspaper. He explains how people can overcome hardships endured and losses suffered. The authentic spontaneous dialogue between therapist and patient provides the generosity and courage necessary to shed their now obsolete defenses and mourn what cannot be remedied or replaced. Rich clinical material demonstrates how mourning can bring about self-acceptance, and set individuals free to take responsibility for and live out their own personal truths. This is a deeply felt, and beautifully written tribute to the redemptive power of psychotherapy and to the regenerative capabilities in all human beings.

Art and Myth of the Ancient Maya

Author : Oswaldo Chinchilla Mazariegos
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300207174
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Art and Myth of the Ancient Maya written by Oswaldo Chinchilla Mazariegos and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2017-04-25 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Translations and Orthography -- Introduction -- 1 Image and Text -- 2 Pictorial and Textual Sources -- 3 Mesoamerican Cosmogony -- 4 The Maiden -- 5 The Grandmother -- 6 The Sun's Opponents -- 7 The Sun -- 8 The Perfect Youth -- 9 The Father -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Illustration Credits -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z

Parallel Worlds

Author : Kerry M. Hull
Publisher : "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
ISBN 13 : 1457117533
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (571 download)

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Download or read book Parallel Worlds written by Kerry M. Hull and published by "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". This book was released on 2012-05-15 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite recent developments in epigraphy, ethnopoetics, and the literary investigation of colonial and modern materials, few studies have compared glyphic texts and historic Maya literatures. Parallel Worlds examines Maya writing and literary traditions from the Classic period until today, revealing remarkable continuities across time. In this volume, contributions from leading scholars in Maya literary studies examine Maya discourse from Classic period hieroglyphic inscriptions to contemporary spoken narratives, focusing on parallelism to unite the literature historically. Contributors take an ethnopoetic approach, examining literary and verbal arts from a historical perspective, acknowledging that poetic form is as important as narrative content in deciphering what these writings reveal about ancient and contemporary worldviews. Encompassing a variety of literary motifs, including humor, folklore, incantation, mythology, and more specific forms of parallelism such as couplets, chiasms, kennings, and hyperbatons, Parallel Worlds is a rich journey through Maya culture and pre-Columbian literature that will be of interest to students and scholars of anthropology, ethnography, Latin American history, epigraphy, comparative literature, language studies, indigenous studies, and mythology.

Toward a Global Middle Ages

Author : Bryan C. Keene
Publisher : Getty Publications
ISBN 13 : 160606598X
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Toward a Global Middle Ages written by Bryan C. Keene and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2019-09-03 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This important and overdue book examines illuminated manuscripts and other book arts of the Global Middle Ages. Illuminated manuscripts and illustrated or decorated books—like today’s museums—preserve a rich array of information about how premodern peoples conceived of and perceived the world, its many cultures, and everyone’s place in it. Often a Eurocentric field of study, manuscripts are prisms through which we can glimpse the interconnected global history of humanity. Toward a Global Middle Ages is the first publication to examine decorated books produced across the globe during the period traditionally known as medieval. Through essays and case studies, the volume’s multidisciplinary contributors expand the historiography, chronology, and geography of manuscript studies to embrace a diversity of objects, individuals, narratives, and materials from Africa, Asia, Australasia, and the Americas—an approach that both engages with and contributes to the emerging field of scholarly inquiry known as the Global Middle Ages. Featuring more than 160 color illustrations, this wide-ranging and provocative collection is intended for all who are interested in engaging in a dialogue about how books and other textual objects contributed to world-making strategies from about 400 to 1600.

Passionate Virtuosity

Author : Charles B. Harris
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252010378
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Passionate Virtuosity written by Charles B. Harris and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Traces of the Spirit

Author : Robin Sylvan
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814798098
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)

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Download or read book Traces of the Spirit written by Robin Sylvan and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2002-07-01 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sylvan examines the religious dimensions of popular music subcultures, charting the influence and religious aspects of popular music in mainstream culture today.

Stewardship

Author : Steven F Kindle
Publisher : Energion Publications
ISBN 13 : 1631994816
Total Pages : 46 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Stewardship written by Steven F Kindle and published by Energion Publications. This book was released on 2015-04-15 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is little disagreement that our world is as close to self-destruction as it has ever been, humanity included. It is unnecessary to list the wars, political conflicts, diseases, ecological disasters, and the like; we are all too familiar with a daily rehearsal of our plight. What there is little or no agreement on is the way out. How will we, as the human race, find our way out of our mutually shared predicament and into a world of wholeness and abundance that the Hebrews named shalom? Is there any wisdom available to us that can lead the way? The answer proposed here is to reconnect with the biblical notion of stewardship as a way of life.

Gnostic Contagion

Author : Peter O'Leary
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780819565648
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (656 download)

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Download or read book Gnostic Contagion written by Peter O'Leary and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2002-06-24 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brings together the study of literature with the psychology and history of religions.

God and the Knowledge of Reality

Author : Thomas Molnar
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000677087
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book God and the Knowledge of Reality written by Thomas Molnar and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-09-28 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written simply yet comprehensively, Molnar's anlaysis of the history of philosophy and false mysticism leads him to conclude that a return to a moderate realism will save the philosophical enterprise from a series of epistemological and societal absolutes that are embodied in contemporary rationalism and mysticism alike. Issues that have been systematically excluded from discourse will have to be reintroduced into the discussion of person and providence Molnar divided the philosophical systems into two groups according to their vision of God, and consequently of reality One group removes God from the human scope, therefore rendering the world unreal, unknowable, and meaningless. The second group holds that God is immanent in the human soul, thereby emphasizing the human attainment of divine status, and reducing the extra-mental world to a condition of utter imperfection. Either way, the result is a pseudo-mysticism, a denial of the creaturely status of human beings What is most needed, Molnar claims, is a theory of knowledge whose ideal is not fusion but distinction-between God and Man, subject and object, the self and the society. By thus raising the question of philosophy over against magic Molnar seeks to awaken the reader from neo-dogmatic assumptions and restore speculative thought to its traditional place.

Ritual and Power in Stone

Author : Julia Guernsey
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 029277916X
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)

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Download or read book Ritual and Power in Stone written by Julia Guernsey and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ancient Mesoamerican city of Izapa in Chiapas, Mexico, is renowned for its extensive collection of elaborate stone stelae and altars, which were carved during the Late Preclassic period (300 BC-AD 250). Many of these monuments depict kings garbed in the costume and persona of a bird, a well-known avian deity who had great significance for the Maya and other cultures in adjacent regions. This Izapan style of carving and kingly representation appears at numerous sites across the Pacific slope and piedmont of Mexico and Guatemala, making it possible to trace political and economic corridors of communication during the Late Preclassic period. In this book, Julia Guernsey offers a masterful art historical analysis of the Izapan style monuments and their integral role in developing and communicating the institution of divine kingship. She looks specifically at how rulers expressed political authority by erecting monuments that recorded their performance of rituals in which they communicated with the supernatural realm in the persona of the avian deity. She also considers how rulers used the monuments to structure their built environment and create spaces for ritual and politically charged performances. Setting her discussion in a broader context, Guernsey also considers how the Izapan style monuments helped to motivate and structure some of the dramatic, pan-regional developments of the Late Preclassic period, including the forging of a codified language of divine kingship. This pioneering investigation, which links monumental art to the matrices of political, economic, and supernatural exchange, offers an important new understanding of a region, time period, and group of monuments that played a key role in the history of Mesoamerica and continue to intrigue scholars within the field of Mesoamerican studies.

Saving the Earth?

Author : E. M. Conradie
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN 13 : 3643903049
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (439 download)

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Download or read book Saving the Earth? written by E. M. Conradie and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2013 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christians seeking to "save the Earth" have to relate creation to salvation by doing justice to both themes. This study explores the ambiguous legacy of the ways in which this challenge has been approached in the reformed tradition of Swiss, Dutch, and German origins and in the reception of this tradition in South Africa. The book focuses on the diverging interpretations of the category of "re-creation" in this regard. (Series: Studies in Religion and the Environment / Studien zur Religion und Umwelt - Vol. 8)

The Trial of Innocence

Author : André LaCocque
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1621892530
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (218 download)

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Download or read book The Trial of Innocence written by André LaCocque and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2006-10-30 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Adam and Eve narrative in Genesis 2-3 has gripped not only biblical scholars, but also theologians, artists, philosophers, and almost everyone else. In this engaging study, a master of biblical interpretation provides a close reading of the Yahwist story. As in his other works, LaCocque makes wise use of the Pseudepigrapha and rabbinic interpretations, as well as the full range of modern interpretations. Every reader will be engaged by his insights.